Ricardo Hausmann - 'US needs a recession'

A session on Economic Growth from this years Davos forum;

Breaking News- Davos under Attack

Some fun for the day- Davos under Attack

via Tyler Cowen

Rebuilding Brand America

Rebuilding Brand America: Five Suggestions for the Future President


Robert F. Bennett, John F. Kerry, HH Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Maurice Levy, Rupert Murdoch, Martin Sorrell with Moisés Naim

Tourism and Poverty

Does Davos make you sick?

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Banding Together to Raise AIDS Awareness

A rock star, a software tycoon and a computer hardware impresario walk into a Swiss village...

Google’s Davos Party Set Dance for the Love of Money

Balkanisation of regulation

Walter B Kielholz, Malcolm Knight, Raymond W. McDaniel Jr, Guillermo Ortiz with Maria Bartiromo

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Knight said the “major challenge” for regulators was the “the Balkanisation of regulation – fragmented across market segments, across national jurisdictions and yet we want to have a global financial system”.

Debt Relief is working for Niger says IMF- so what?

In the landlocked Western African country of Niger, lower debt service, together with continued significant budgetary aid and higher domestic revenue mobilization, is having an impact on spending in education, health, and the rural sector, where budgetary allocations increased by 4 percent of GDP between 2002 and 2007...

Reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will be extremely challenging for Niger. To halve poverty by 2015, as required by the MDGs, the new Poverty Reduction Strategy for 2008-12 estimates that real GDP growth must average 7 percent. Even if aid is substantially scaled up, from about 10 percent of GDP in 2007 to about 15 percent of GDP, Niger may have difficulty achieving this high growth rate.

- Debt Relief Yields Results in Niger

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Session from Davos-Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals

Ban Ki-moon, Jose Manuel Barroso, Bono, John T. Chambers, William H. Gates III, Stefan Oschmann, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua with Gordon Brown

Systemic Financial Risk- from Davos

James Dimon, Wes Edens, Robert M. Kimmitt, Jean-Claude Trichet with James J. Schiro

Musharraf in Davos- 'Who're these retired generals?'

The only moment, it seemed to me, when the president lost his cool was when we asked him about a recent letter from retired generals, accusing him of undermining democracy. "Who are these retired generals," he said, suddenly flustered. "It is the serving generals who are important." But Mr Musharraf has recently become a retired general himself. And the question of the loyalties of the army and the intelligence services is going to loom large over the next year.

-Davos, day two - Pakistan, Screaming Eagle and the art of moderation

New Drivers of Development

Gordon Brown, Willam H. Gates, Trevor Manuel, Michael Treschow, Robert B. Zoellick with Indra K. Nooyi

Davos Blogs

Davos Conversation

The Best
The Telegraph
FT Davos delegates' blog
The Daily Davos(WSJ)

The Rest
NYT Deal Book
Reuters
BBC
Forbes

The New Fads

Debating the Rise of Sovereign Funds

Where are they now?

Bono and Al Gore from Davos

Where do you think is Musharraf?

Musharraf from Davos: Don’t Let Human Rights Get You Down

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Musharraf talks about China and US relations, 'my Pakistan', etc

Where are they now?

You guessed it right - in Davos.

Krugman on Davos

But I also have to say that the scene at Davos, with all the great, good, wise, and, especially, rich gathered together to celebrate their greatness, goodness, wisdom, and, especially, wealth, has always made me uncomfortable. I usually end up skipping a couple of big dinner affairs and sneaking off to feast on the modern Swiss national dish — which is, of course, spaghetti carbonara

Krugman's blog